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General Awareness-141
Name: ________________________________________ Roll No.: ________________
1. Anshula Kant was appointed as Managing Director in which of the following public sector banks recently?
1) IDBI Bank 2) Dena Bank 3) Allahabad Bank 4) PNB 5) SBI
2. Arpinder Singh created history recently by becoming first Indian to win a medal in IAAF Continental Cup. He is
associated with the game of
1) Triple jump 2) Pole vault 3) Javelin throw 4) Discuss throw 5) Long distance run
3. Martin Vizcarra is the present President of which country? The country recently won a legal battle to repatriate a
smuggled gold funeral mask (Sican mask) from Germany.
1) Turkey 2) Greece 3) Peru 4) Colombia 5) Nigeria
4. Antonio Guterres recently urged that the world must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 to prevent
runaway climate change. He is the present head of the
1) WHO 2) UNICEF 3) UNESCO 4) UN 5) None of these
5. HD Kumaraswamy is the present Chief Minister of which of the following states?
1) Telangana 2) Karnataka 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Andhra Pradesh 5) Maharashtra
6. Daniel Zhang was appointed as the executive chairman of which of the following firms recently? He is the present chief
executive officer of the firm.
1) Alibaba 2) Lenovo 3) Xiaomi 4) Huawei 5) Tencent
7. The former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan recently prescribed a closer examination of Mudra loans to prevent an NPA
crisis in the future. The maximum amount one can avail under Mudra scheme is
1) Rs 50,000 2) Rs 1 lakh 3) Rs 2 lakh 4) Rs 5 lakh 5) Rs 10 lakh
8. Suresh Sethi is the present MD and CEO of which of the following payments banks?
1) Paytm Payments Bank 2) Fino Payments Bank 3) India Post Payments Bank
4) Jio Payments Bank 5) None of these
9. The World Suicide Prevention Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Sep 2) 10 Sep 3) 11 Sep 4) 21 Sep 5) 30 Sep
10. Nepal army is going to hold “Sagarmatha Friendship-2” military exercise with which of the following countries?
1) Pakistan 2) India 3) Japan 4) China 5) US
11. A group of global philanthropic foundations recently announced a ‘development impact bond’ (DIB) worth $11 mn to
improve the education outcome of 300,000 students in
1) Delhi and Gujarat 2) Bihar and UP 3) Jharkhand and Odisha
4) Assam and Manipur 5) Uttarakhand and Rajasthan
12. Samsung has opened the world’s largest mobile experience centre in which city in India?
1) Noida 2) Gurugram 3) Hyderabad 4) Bengaluru 5) Chennai
13. The joint exercise between the navies of India and which country titled SLINEX-2018 was held recently in Trincomalee?
1) Singapore 2) Sri Lanka 3) Sweden 4) South Korea 5) Suriname
14. Which of the following states recently started home delivery of services provided by the govt to the people in a first in
the country?
1) Bihar 2) Haryana 3) Gujarat 4) Rajasthan 5) Delhi
15. About one million people took to the streets of Barcelona recently to mark Catalonia’s National Day. Barcelona is a city
situated in
1) Netherlands 2) Finland 3) Peru 4) Colombia 5) Spain
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16. The Asian Games gold medal-winner Amit Panghal has been nominated for this year’s Arjuna awards. He is an Indian
1) Shuttler 2) Shooter 3) Boxer 4) Archer 5) Shot putter
17. A category 4 storm named Hurricane Florence hit which of the following countries recently?
1) UK 2) Japan 3) US 4) Mexico 5) New Zealand
18. What is the name of the joint military exercise between Indian and Mongolia which was held in Mongolia recently?
1) Nomadic Elephant 2018 2) Yudh Abyas 2018 3) INDRA 2018
4) Hand-in-Hand 2018 5) Ekuverin 2018
19. Which of the following is soon to hand over the operation of a port at Chabahar to India?
1) Iraq 2) Tajikistan 3) Uzbekistan 4) Iran 5) Turkmenistan
20. The headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is located in
1) Madrid 2) Rome 3) Prague 4) Minsk 5) London
21. The retail inflation remained at what per cent in Aug 2018?
1) 3.69 per cent 2) 4 per cent 3) 4.17 per cent 4) 4.27 per cent 5) 4.39 per cent
22. Manohar Lal Khattar recently announced a sharp reduction in electricity tariff in the state. He is the present Chief
Minister of which state?
1) Himachal Pradesh 2) Uttarakhand 3) Haryana 4) Punjab 5) Chhattisgarh
23. According to the UN’s report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, the number of undernourished
people globally in 2017 remained at
1) 777 million 2) 821 million 3) 888 million 4) 912 million 5) 966 million
24. Sardar Singh announced his retirement recently from international
1) cricket 2) football 3) tennis 4) badminton 5) hockey
25. The Union Cabinet gave its approval to the PM-AASHA scheme recently. The scheme will
empower
1) health workers 2) students 3) pregnant women 4) farmers 5) unorganised sector
26. The Union Cabinet recently approved a proposal for 100 per cent electrification of all the broad gauge (BG) routes of
Railways at a cost of
1) Rs 100 bn 2) Rs 111.22 bn 3) Rs 121.34 bn 4) Rs 130.25 bn 5) Rs 150.45 bn
27. The United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation is observed every year on which date?
28. Which of the following is the first state to make it mandatory to obtain Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for
fulfilling e-Way bill requirements?
1) Bihar 2) Rajasthan 3) Maharashtra 4) Gujarat 5) Uttar Pradesh
29. The growth of SFBs in fiscal 2018 has slowed down due to the process of transition from their erstwhile avatar as NBFCs.
Here, the term SFBs means
1) Small Family Banks 2) Small Foreign Banks 3) Small Franchises Banks
4) Small Finance Banks 5) Small Future Banks
30. Which of the following countries launched its largest ever war games called Vostok 2018 recently?
1) China 2) Russia 3) Ukraine 4) North Korea 5) Iran
31. Which state govt recently banned Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, knows as E-Cigarettes, in the state?
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Rajasthan 3) Delhi 4) Sikkim 5) Kerala
32. Which state govt has decided to distribute over 1 lakh pump sets to double the farmers’ income by 2022? The pump sets
will be distributed under NABARD’s Rural Infrastructure Development Project.
1) Bihar 2) Odisha 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Assam 5) Gujarat
33. The European Union Parliament recently voted to punish which of the following countries for breaching democratic
norms?
1) Germany 2) France 3) Greece 4) Croatia 5) Hungary
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34. The super typhoon Mangkhut hit which of the following countries recently?
1) Mexico 2) Canada 3) Philippines 4) Colombia 5) Russia
35. ‘Build for India’ is a programme that promotes entrepreneurship, and other areas such as education, women empowerment,
agriculture and environment. It is an initiative by
1) Google 2) Paytm 3) Facebook 4) Flipkart 5) Microsoft
36. The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited which of the following cities recently to attend the 23rd meeting of
the Inter-Governmental Commission on Technical & Economic Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC)?
1) Helsinki 2) Copenhagen 3) Berlin 4) Moscow 5) Paris
37. Who among the following will be the next Chief Justice of India as notified by the Union Law Ministry recently?
1) Sharad Arvind Bobde 2) Ranjan Gogoi 3) Arjan Kumar Sikri
4) Kurian Joseph 5) Madan Bhimrao Lokur
38. Who among the following recently launched a $2-bn fund to help homeless families and create a network of non-profit
preschools in low-income communities?
1) Jeff Bezos 2) Larry Page 3) Elon Musk 4) Mark Zuckerberg 5) Warren Buffett
39. Vibha Padalkar has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of which of the following life insurance companies?
1) PNB MetLife 2) ICICI Prudential 3) HDFC Standard 4) Bharti AXA 5) Bajaj Allianz
40. Which of the following countries issues EB-5 visas (investor visas) wherein applicants have to invest a minimum
$5,00,000 (plus $75,000 for processing) to migrate to the country?
1) UK 2) Germany 3) China 4) UAE 5) US
41. According to the data collated by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), mobile user base in India hit over 1 bn
as of Jul 2018. The chart is topped by
1) Reliance Jio 2) Bharti Airtel 3) Vodafone 4) Idea 5) BSNL
42. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a mosque in which city recently to attend an event organised by the Bohra
Muslims?
1) Bhopal 2) Indore 3) Hyderabad 4) Chennai 5) Ajmer
43. FCA is a term used in connection with the forex reserves of a country. What is the full form of FCA in this context?
1) Foreign Currency Assets 2) Fringe Currency Assets 3) Fixed Currency Assets
4) Funded Currency Assets 5) Future Currency Assets
44. The RBI will purchase Govt Securities (G-Secs) under OMO for Rs 10,000 cr on Sep 19. Here, the term OMO means
1) Open Market Observation 2) Open Market Option 3) Open Market Operations
4) Open Market Occasion 5) Open Market Orchestration
45. Which of the following automakers has announced to end the production of its iconic “Beetle” cars in 2019?
1) Renault 2) Suzuki 3) Toyota 4) Ford 5) Volkswagen
46. Which state govt and the Seoul Metropolitan Govt recently signed an MoU to work closely in various fields including
waste management and public health?
1) Delhi 2) Gujarat 3) Bihar 4) West Bengal 5) Tripura
47. The International Day of Charity is observed annually on which date?
48. The festival of Harvest Nuakhai was celebrated in which of the following states recently?
1) Kerala 2) Maharashtra 3) Chhattisgarh 4) Odisha 5) Jharkhand
49. The country’s first tribal tourism circuit was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Tourism KJ Alphons in Dhamtari
district of
1) Jharkhand 2) Telangana 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Odisha 5) Chhattisgarh
50. Padma Bhushan awardee Vijay Shankar Vyas passed away recently. He was a noted
1) agricultural economist 2) philanthropist 3) physicist
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51. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu went on a three-nation tour recently to Serbia, Malta and
1) Croatia 2) Romania 3) Slovakia 4) Estonia 5) Kenya
52. The govt has launched Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan to provide minimum support price assurance
to farmers. It will also include Price Deficiency Payment Scheme based on Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana of
1) Karnataka 2) Rajasthan 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Bihar
53. India, Afghanistan and which of the following countries held their first tripartite meeting in Kabul recently on
implementation of the Chabahar port project and other issues?
1) US 2) Japan 3) Russia 4) Iraq 5) Iran
54. Viktor Orban is the present Prime Minister of which of the following countries? He is often criticized for his authoritarian
approach.
1) Norway 2) Sweden 3) Denmark 4) Hungry 5) Greece
55. Who among the following won the men’s doubles title of the US Open tennis tournament?
1) Robert Farah and J Cabal 2) Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic 3) Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo
4) Mike Bryan and Jack Sock 5) Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah
56. Justice Om Prakash Mishra was sworn in as new Chief Justice of which of the following countries recently?
1) India 2) Nepal 3) Bangladesh 4) Pakistan 5) Mauritius
57. Assam govt has appointed Hima Das as the first sports ambassador of the state. She is a/an
1) sprint runner 2) javelin thrower 3) archer 4) boxer 5) discus thrower
58. India and Mongolia held joint military exercise “Nomadic Elephant” recently in Mongolian capital
1) Tashkent 2) Bishkek 3) Dushanbe 4) Astana 5) Ulaanbaatar
59. The govt has set up a committee to address the concerns on some proposals of the draft e-commerce policy. The
Committee is headed by the secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) who is
1) Vijay Bhaskar 2) TN Krishnan 3) Reji Mathews 4) Ramesh Abhishek 5) AVS Rao
60. Duleep Trophy is associated with which of the following games? India Blue won the Trophy recently.
1) Football 2) Hockey 3) Cricket 4) Golf 5) Polo
61. Vnesheconombank (VEB) is a govt-owned development bank based in which country?
1) South Africa 2) Belarus 3) Colombia 4) Russia 5) Ukraine
62. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew at what per cent rate in Jul 2018?
1) 5.6 per cent 2) 5.9 per cent 3) 6.6 per cent 4) 6.8 per cent 5) 7.6 per cent
63. The G-20 trade and investment ministerial meeting was held in which country recently? Commerce and Industry Minister
Suresh Prabhu participated in this meeting.
1) Indonesia 2) China 3) Canada 4) Brazil 5) Argentina
64. ‘Apsara-U’ was operationalized recently. This is a Trombay-based
1) research reactor 2) tsunami warning centre 3) oil field
4) space centre 5) Naval base
65. The joint military training Exercise – Yudh Abhyas 2018 – was held at Chaubattia in Uttarakhand’s Almora district
between the forces of India and
1) Japan 2) US 3) Australia 4) China 5) Canada
66. Which state govt has launched a mobile platform, e-Rythu (e-farmer) which will enable small-scale farmers to market their
produce at reasonable prices?
1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Telangana 3) Karnataka 4) Assam 5) Kerala
67. The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed every year on which date?
68. The Central Govt has set up a Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) at Nabard with a corpus
of
1) Rs 80 bn 2) Rs 85 bn 3) Rs 90 bn 4) Rs 95 bn 5) Rs 100 bn

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69. The govt has approved the MoU on blockchain technology by Exim Bank under the BRICS Interbank Cooperation
Mechanism. The present Chairman of Exim Bank of India is
1) Subhash Chandra Khuntia 2) Mohammad Mustafa 3) Ajay Tyagi
4) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala 5) David Rasquinha
70. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved continuation of the Capacity Development Scheme
for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20 with an outlay of
1) Rs 1,150 cr 2) Rs 1,550 cr 3) Rs 1,750 cr 4) Rs 2,050 cr 5) Rs 2,250 cr
71. Which of the following state govt recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
to set up an ethanol plant in Panipat?
1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat 3) Rajasthan 4) Haryana 5) Punjab
72. A two-day Regional Conference on Good Governance with Focus on Aspirational Districts was held recently in
1) Jaipur 2) Kochi 3) Bhopal 4) Patna 5) Bhubaneswar
73. India and which of the following countries recently signed an implementation agreement on “MOBILISE YOUR CITY”
(MYC)?
1) Japan 2) France 3) Mexico 4) US 5) Singapore
74. A note which has become dirty due to usage and also includes a two piece note pasted together wherein both the pieces
presented belong to the same note, is called
1) sliced note 2) soiled note 3) saved note 4) mutilated note 5) imperfect note
75. Who among the following was awarded the inaugural Meryl Streep Award for Excellence in US recently?
1) Anushka Sharma 2) Katrina Kaif 3) Deepika Padukone
4) Priyanka Chopra 5) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
76. The Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) has developed India’s first indigenous anti-nuclear
medical kit. INMAS is based in
1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Hyderabad 4) Chennai 5) Kolkata
77. The first lion safari of which of the following states was inaugurated, recently, at Nahargarh Biological Park?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) West Bengal 4) Rajasthan 5) Karnataka
78. The Hindi Divas is observed every year on which date? On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India had
adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of the Republic of India.
79. Every year India celebrates Engineer’s Day on which date? It falls on the birth anniversary of M Visvesvaraya.
80. Which payment gateway provider in India has received the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) approval to operate its own
non-banking financial company (NBFC)?
1) PayTM 2) CCAvenue 3) PayU 4) PayPal 5) InstaMojo
81. The Centre has recently proposed the amalgamation of state-owned Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and which among the
following banks to create India’s third largest bank as parts of reforms in the public sector banking segment?
1) Indian Overseas Bank 2) Indian Bank 3) Vijaya Bank
4) Oriental Bank of Commerce 5) UCO Bank
82. India and Malta signed three MoUs in the fields of Maritime Cooperation, Tourism and Training. What is the capital city
of Malta?
1) Tirana 2) Valletta 3) Yerevan 4) Belmopan 5) Moroni
83. The Ministry of Tourism has organized the festival of tourism ‘Paryatan Parv 2018’ in collaboration with other central
ministries, state govts and stakeholders in
1) Maharashtra 2) Odisha 3) Haryana 4) New Delhi 5) Goa
84. Home Minister Rajnath Singh has recently launched the country’s first ‘smart fence’ pilot project along which Indian
border?
1) Indo-Nepal 2) Indo-Bangladesh 3) Indo-Bhutan 4) Indo-China 5) Indo-Pak

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85. India’s first exclusive and certified ‘Dog Park’ has come up in
1) Hyderabad 2) Varanasi 3) Bengaluru 4) Ahmedabad 5) Gwalior
86. Which country has rolled out world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train?
1) France 2) Russia 3) China 4) Germany 5) Japan
87. The defence acquisition council (DAC), chaired by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved the procurement of
equipment for the Defence Forces valued at over
1) Rs 7,500 crores 2) Rs 8,000 crores 3) Rs 9,100 crores 4) Rs 9,600 crores 5) Rs 9,750 crores
88. Which state tourism has bagged two prestigious gold awards of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) for its
innovative marketing campaigns at Langkawi, Malaysia during PATA Travel Mart 2018?
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Kerala 3) Karnataka 4) Maharashtra 5) Madhya Pradesh
89. Who has sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Sudan?
1) Bakri Hassan Saleh 2) Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga 3) Sauli Niinisto
4) Cyril Ramaphosa 5) Moutaz Mousa Abdallah
90. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is celebrated every year on
1) Sept 15 2) Sept 16 3) Sept 17 4) Sept 18 5) Sept 19
91. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Afghanistan President in New Delhi recently. The present President of Afghanistan
is
1) Ashraf Ghani 2) Abdul Rashid Dostum 3) Abdullah Abdullah
4) Hamid Karzai 5) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
92. Satyarup Siddhanta, Mousumi Khatua created history recently by climbing Asia’s highest volcanic peak Mount Damavand.
Mount Damavand is situated in
1) Pakistan 2) Afghanistan 3) China 4) Myanmar 5) Iran
93. India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for construction of a 5000-metric ton temperature controlled
warehouse in Dambulla in which country?
1) Nepal 2) Bhutan 3) Thailand 4) Sri Lanka 5) Philippines
94. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has approved new KYC norms for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI).
The headquarters of SEBI is located in
1) Lucknow 2) Hyderabad 3) Mumbai 4) New Delhi 5) Kolkata
95. Which state govt has decided to open a new trekking route in Mirik, passing through picturesque tea gardens, forests
and mountains?
1) Sikkim 2) West Bengal 3) Assam 4) Manipur 5) Tripura
96. Eliud Kipchoge recently set a new marathon world record of 2 hour 1 minute 39 seconds in Berlin. He hails from
1) Jordan 2) Jamaica 3) Kenya 4) Nigeria 5) Ghana
97. A court in which of the following countries recently ordered extradition of British middleman Christian Michel to India in
the AgustaWestland chopper case?
1) Saudi Arabia 2) Italy 3) Kuwait 4) Spain 5) UAE
98. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) recently approved financial assistance of what amount for repair
and safety of 198 dams in the country?
1) Rs 2666 cr 2) Rs 2862 cr 3) Rs 3076 cr 4) Rs 3246 cr 5) Rs 3466 cr
99. The host of the 2018 Asia Cup cricket tournament is
1) Malaysia 2) UAE 3) Bangladesh 4) Sri Lanka 5) Pakistan
100. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu met President of Chamber of Deputies of Romania, Liviu Dragnea, during his recent visit
to the country. The capital of Romania is
1) Kingston 2) Bucharest 3) Helsinki 4) Budapest 5) Copenhagen
101. Which country recently rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train?
1) France 2) Italy 3) Germany 4) Spain 5) UK

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102. Dr Raghupati Singhania was conferred with ‘Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle’, the highest honour accorded to non-
nationals. He is the Chairman and MD of
1) JK Tyre & Industries 2) MRF 3) Appollo Tyres
4) Goodyear 5) CEAT Tyres
103. ______ has/have been signed on to promote and endorse the Skill India Mission, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
1) Amitabh Bachchan 2) Anushka Sharma 3) Varun Dhawan 4) All the above 5) Only 2) and 3)
104. Tajinder Mukherjee has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of
1) The Oriental Insurance Company 2) National Insurance Company
3) United India Insurance Company 4) The New India Assurance Company
5) General Insurance Corporation
105. The cabinet of which country recently approved the draft of a proposed agreement with India to enable it to use the
Chittagong and Mongla ports?
1) Sri Lanka 2) Myanmar 3) Thailand 4) Bangladesh 5) Maldives
106. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has approved revised framework for settlement of cases and new
know-your-customer for FPIs. Here, FPI means
1) Foreign Portfolio Investors 2) Fringe Portfolio Investors 3) Foreign Preferential Investors
4) Fringe Preferential Investors 5) None of these
107. Which of the following cities will host 2022 Asian Para Games?
1) Hangzhou 2) New Delhi 3) Manila 4) Bangkok 5) Tokyo
108. India has signed a financing loan agreement with the World Bank for USD 74-million for the workforce development
project of which of the following states?
1) Rajasthan 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) Maharashtra 4) Manipur 5) Uttarakhand
109. ‘e-Sahaj’ portal was launched for grant of Security Clearance by which of the following Union Ministries recently?
1) Foreign Affairs 2) Commerce and Industry 3) Science and Technology
4) Home 5) Finance
110. Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the Prime Minister of which country jointly inaugurated the construction of a
130-kilometre-long Friendship Pipeline Project recently?
1) Nepal 2) Bangladesh 3) Bhutan 4) Sri Lanka 5) Maldives
111. _______ has been appointed the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
1) Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas 2) Suman Chakraborty 3) Srikumar Banerjee
4) Ratan Kumar Sinha 5) Sekhar Basu
112. Padmaja Chundru has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of which of the following
public sector banks?
1) Bank of India 2) Dena Bank 3) UCO Bank 4) Vijaya Bank 5) Indian Bank
113. India Post Payments Bank and which of the following insurers have joined hands ‘to provide insurance to all’?
1) Bharti AXA 2) Tata AIG 3) Bajaj Allianz 4) ICICI Prudential 5) HDFC Standard
114. The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has decided to pay cash relief to insured persons during the period
of unemployment. The scheme is named
1) Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna 2) Atal Rojgar Yojna 3) Atal Berojgar Kalyan Yojna
4) Sabka Vikas, Sabka Kalyan 5) None of these
115. Small saving schemes will fetch more interest in the three months period starting Oct 1. What per cent interest will be paid
on Public Provident Fund (PPF) for the period?
1) 7.3 per cent 2) 7.7 per cent 3) 8 per cent 4) 8.5 per cent 5) 8.7 per cent
116. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited Romania recently. The capital of Romania is
1) Baku 2) Maputo 3) Yerevan 4) Bucharest 5) Minsk

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117. India and Niger announced their partnership for establishment of the Mahatma Gandhi International Convention Centre
in Niamey, Niger. The currency of Niger is
1) Liu 2) West African CFA franc 3) Rand
4) US Dollar 5) Baht
118. The ISRO Technology Incubation Centre was launched in which of the following north-eastern cities recently?
1) Agartala 2) Kohima 3) Gangtok 4) Aizawl 5) Imphal
119. The govt has modified the operational guidelines for PMFBY. In the term MPFBY, letter F denotes
1) Fire 2) Farmer 3) Fisher 4) Fruit 5) Fasal
120. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra has been appointed as MD and CEO of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Corporation Bank 2) Indian Bank 3) Syndicate Bank
4) Central Bank of India 5) Canara Bank
121. Ashraf Ghani visited India recently. He is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Malaysia 2) Iran 3) Iraq 4) Bangladesh 5) Afghanistan
122. India and Morocco signed air services agreement enabling greater connectivity recently. The capital of Morocco is
1) Maputo 2) Rabat 3) Baku 4) Nassau 5) Hague
123. Pallav Mohapatra has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) Allahabad Bank 2) Bank of Maharashtra 3) Bank of India
4) Central Bank of India 5) Indian Bank
124. The govt recently approved the equity investment of Rs.1033.54 cr for setting up a Coal Gasification based fertilizer
project in Talcher Fertilizer situated in
1) Jharkhand 2) West Bengal 3) Odisha 4) Assam 5) Karnataka
125. Anna Rajam Malhotra passed away recently. After independence, she was India’s first
1) IAS officer 2) astronaut 3) RBI Governor 4) ambassador 5) foreign secretary
126. Who among the following sportspersons is also called ‘Dhing Express’?
1) Hima Das 2) Lalita Babar 3) Krishna Poonia 4) Tintu Lukka 5) Dutee Chand
127. Which of the following films is India’s official entry to Oscars 2019?
1) Village Rockstars 2) Raazi 3) Padman 4) Hichki 5) Gold
128. The United Nations Secretary General will be on a four-day visit to India from 1 Oct 2018. The present Secretary General
of the UN is
1) Jim Yong Kim 2) Tedros Adhanom 3) Antonio Guterres 4) Roberto Azevedo 5) Filippo Grandi
129. The International Day of Peace is observed every year on which date?
130. Tran Dai Quang passed away recently. He was the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Thailand 2) Vietnam 3) Cambodia 4) Singapore 5) Philippines
131. The World Bank board has endorsed an ambitious five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for India which is
expected to bring between $25-30 bn in financial support from
1) MIGA 2) IFC 3) IBRD 4) All the above 5) Only 2) and 3)
132. India has contributed what amount for the installation of solar panels on the roof of the imposing UN building at the
world body’s headquarters in New York?
1) $0.5 mn 2) $1 mn 3) $1.5 mn 4) $2 mn 5) $2.5 mn
133. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently successfully flight tested the indigenously
developed surface-to-surface tactical missile
1) Prahar 2) Ajey 3) Nirbhay 4) Rustom 5) Lakshya
134. Who among the following was conferred the Smita Patil award for best actor at the 34th edition of the Priyadarshini
Academy Global Awards 2018?
1) Aishwarya Rai 2) Sonam Kapoor 3) Katrina Kaif 4) Deepika Padukone 5) Anushka Sharma

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135. Which of the following banks recently paid Rs 38 cr in fines to the GST department for alleged violations in domestic
remittances?
1) Axis Bank 2) RBL Bank 3) Yes Bank 4) ICICI Bank 5) HDFC Bank
136. Insurance regulator Irdai has raised the minimum insurance cover for owner-driver to what amount for a premium of Rs
750 per annum?
1) Rs 2 lakh 2) Rs 5 lakh 3) Rs 8 lakh 4) Rs 10 lakh 5) Rs 15 lakh
137. The Reserve Bank of India has shortlisted five IT firms for implementation of a CIMS for seamless data collection and
validations. The term CIMS means
1) Centralised Information and Management System 2) Centralised Integration and Management System
3) Centralised Information and Monitoring System 4) Centralised Integration and Monitoring System
5) None of these
138. Which of the following countries is hosting the 2018 World Women’s Boxing Championships starting 15 Nov?
1) Japan 2) Malaysia 3) China 4) India 5) Thailand
139. Which of the following teams won the 2018 Asian Team Snooker Championship in Doha?
1) India 2) Pakistan 3) Bangladesh 4) Sri Lanka 5) Nepal
140. Which of the following cyclonic storms hit West Bengal recently?
1) Phailin 2) Vardah 3) Daye 4) Ockhi 5) Sidr
141. Which of the following states got its first airport in the form of Pakyong airport recently?
1) Assam 2) Nagaland 3) Mizoram 4) Sikkim 5) Tripura
142. Pope Francis recognised seven bishops appointed by which country recently as part of a historic accord to improve
ties? The country has some 10 million Catholics.
1) Ukraine 2) North Korea 3) China 4) Mongolia 5) Pakistan
143. Which of the following is close to become the first country in the world to double its tiger population? It has at present
235 tigers, nearly double of around 121 tigers in 2009.
1) Sri Lanka 2) Bangladesh 3) India 4) Indonesia 5) Nepal
144. The centenary celebrations to commemorate hundred years of liberation of Haifa by the Indian troops in 1918 culminated
recently. Haifa is located in
1) Israel 2) Sweden 3) France 4) Poland 5) Finland
145. Renowned filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi passed away recently. Which of the following is one of the films made by her?
1) Darmiyaan 2) Daman 3) Rudaali 4) All the above 5) Only2) and 3)
146. Ashok Kumar Pradhan has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) United Bank of India 2) Indian Bank 3) Bank of India
4) Bank of Maharashtra 5) Dena Bank
147. Who among the following has been conferred ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2018’ along with Virat Kohli?
1) Jinson Johnson 2) Hima Das 3) Pooja Kadian 4) Rohan Bopanna 5) S Mirabai Chanu
148. Neeraj Chopra has been conferred Arjuna Award 2018. He is associated with which of the following games?
1) Discuss throw 2) Archery 3) Javelin throw 4) Fencing 5) Pole vault
149. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of UCO Bank?
1) Karnam Shekhar 2) J Packirisamy 3) Pallav Mohapatra
4) Atul Kumar Goel 5) Mrutyunjay Mahapatra
150. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with leaders from Fiji, Estonia and Suriname recently. The
capital of Fiji is
1) Suva 2) Tallinn 3) Nassau 4) Yerevan 5) Paramaribo
151. Luka Modric was named the world’s best male player at the Best Fifa Football Awards in London recently. He belongs to
which country?
1) Argentina 2) France 3) Germany 4) Spain 5) Croatia

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152. The ‘Garuda Shakti’ exercise is conducted by the armed forces of India and which of the following countries?
1) Indonesia 2) Malaysia 3) Thailand 4) Sri Lanka 5) Nepal
153. India has been aligned with the Quadrilateral consultative forum, comprising Australia, India, Japan and which of the
following countries since some time?
1) UK 2) France 3) Germany 4) US 5) China
154. Asian Development Bank (ADB) maintained India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal at 7.3 per cent. The headquarters
of ADB is located in
1) Tokyo 2) Manila 3) Bangkok 4) Hong Kong 5) New Delhi
155. Customers of IndusInd Bank can now use virtual assistant Alexa to carry out transactions such as fund transfers, mobile
phone recharge and credit card payments. Alexa has been developed by
1) Flipkart 2) Facebook 3) Amazon 4) Apple 5) Microsoft
156. The action or practice of selling an additional product or service to an existing customer is termed as
1) Red herring 2) Cross-selling 3) Tipping 4) Misselling 5) Kite flying
157. Shanti Lal Jain has been appointed as the new Executive Director in which of the following public sector banks?
1) Bank of Baroda 2) Bank of India 3) Indian Bank 4) Allahabad Bank 5) Corporation Bank
158. J Packirisamy has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) Syndicate Bank 2) Central Bank of India 3) Canara Bank
4) Andhra Bank 5) Bank of Maharashtra
159. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Executive Director in the Punjab National Bank?
1) Vikramaditya Singh Khichi 2) Hemant Kumar Tamta 3) Agyey Kumar Azad
4) Alok Srivastava 5) Vijay Dube
160. Naib Subedar Jinson Johnson was conferred Arjuna Award 2018 recently. He is associated with which of the following
games?
1) Boxing 2) Shooting 3) Archery 4) Triple jump 5) Athletics
161. S Harisankar has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) Dena Bank 2) UCO Bank 3) Punjab & Sind Bank
4) United Bank of India 5) Union Bank of India
162. Gopal Singh Gusain has been appointed as Executive Director of which of the following banks?
1) Union Bank of India 2) Oriental Bank of Commerce 3) Central Bank of India
4) Bank of Maharashtra 5) Allahabad Bank
163. Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy was conferred Arjun Award 2018 recently. She is associated with which of the following games?
1) Tennis 2) Squash 3) Table tennis 4) Snooker 5) Badminton
164. Which state has topped the ‘Ease of Living Index’ ranking which was released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs recently?
1) Kerala 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Gujarat 4) Karnataka 5) Maharashtra
165. The govt has released draft of new telecom policy - National Digital Communications Policy 2018 - with an aim to attract
USD 100-bn investment and provide broadband access to every citizen with a speed of
1) 20 mbps 2) 25 mbps 3) 40 mbps 4) 50 mbps 5) 60 mbps
166. Who among the following has/have been awarded with the prestigious United Nations Champions of the Earth Award
in the Policy Leadership category?
1) Narendra Modi 2) Emmanuel Macron 3) Donald Trump 4) Vladimir Putin 5) Both 1) and 2)
167. The famous Indra Jatra festival was celebrated in which city recently? The chariot procession and mask dances are the
main attraction of Indra Jatra.
1) Colombo 2) Dhaka 3) Jakarta 4) Kathmandu 5) Puri
168. Which state govt has announced to launch the Universal Pension scheme to citizens over 60 years of age on 2 Oct?
1) Assam 2) Bihar 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Gujarat 5) Rajasthan

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169. The Union Finance Ministry has launched a mobile application as a part of financial inclusion. The app is named
1) Jan Dhan Disha 2) Jan Dhan Darshak 3) Jan Dhan Kosh 4) Jan Dhan Drishti 5) Jan Dhan Prahari
170. The Cabinet of which of the following states recently sanctioned an amount of Rs 50 lakh to filmmaker Rima Das whose
movie Village Rockstar has been nominated for Oscars?
1) Maharashtra 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Assam 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Karnataka
171. The govt has set up an eight-member Lokpal Search Committee under the Chairmanship of
1) Justice Sukha Ram Singh Yadav 2) Arundhati Bhattacharya 3) A Surya Prakash
4) Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai 5) Balbir Punj
172. Which country recently lifted restrictions on import of non-basmati rice from India and is ready to receive the first
consignment shipped from India?
1) Mongolia 2) South Korea 3) Bangladesh 4) Vietnam 5) China
173. According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the global trade growth is expected to slow down what per cent in
2018?
174. The RBI has enhanced the “Facility to Avail Liquidity for Liquidity Coverage Ratio (FALLCR)” for banks from the
existing 11 per cent to what per cent of their deposits starting 1 Oct?
1) 12 per cent 2) 13 per cent 3) 14 per cent 4) 15 per cent 5) 16 per cent
175. The Supreme Court recently lifted the ban on the entry of women in Sabarimala temple. The temple is situated in the state
of
1) Kerala 2) Maharashtra 3) Karnataka 4) Rajasthan 5) Odisha
176. Romania will open a consulate in Chennai. The capital of Romania is
1) Maputo 2) Bucharest 3) Tallinn 4) Chisinau 5) Minsk
177. The second Global RE-INVEST summit is scheduled to be held in which city?
1) Mumbai 2) Bengaluru 3) Hyderabad 4) New Delhi 5) Chennai
178. Subedar Satish Kumar is one of the winners of Arjuna Award 2018. He is associated with which of the following games?
1) Boxing 2) Shooting 3) Archery 4) Javelin throw 5) Pole vault
179. Who among the following has been appointed as new Executive Director in Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC)?
1) PR Rajgopal 2) Sanjay Kumar 3) Hemant Kumar Tamta
4) Alok Srivastava 5) Vijay Dube
180. Ashok Kumar Pradhan has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) Union Bank of India 2) Bank of India 3) United Bank of India
4) Indian Bank 5) Corporation Bank
181. Who among the following was not conferred Arjuna Award 2018 recently?
1) Manpreet Singh (Hockey) 2) Savita (Hockey) 3) Shubhankar Sharma (Golf)
4) Smriti Mandhana (Cricket) 5) None of these
182. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has set up a high-level committee on Corporate Social Responsibility which will be
headed by the Corporate Affairs Secretary
1) Rajiv Gauba 2) Injeti Srinivas 3) Hasmukh Adhia
4) Arvind Mayaram 5) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
183. The senior IPS officers Rajni Kant Misra was appointed as the new Director General of which of the following armed
forces?
1) Sashastra Seema Bal 2) Central Reserve Police Force 3) Border Security Force
4) Central Industrial Security Force 5) None of these
184. The RBI has withdrawn permission given to which of the following banks to open new branches and also has put a freeze
on the remuneration of the MD and CEO of the bank CS Ghosh?
1) IDFC Bank 2) Bandhan Bank 3) YES Bank
4) Kotak Mahindra Bank 5) IndusInd Bank

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185. The govt has announced a reduction in gross borrowing estimate for the current fiscal by what amount and contain
fiscal deficit target at 3.3 per cent?
186. Alok Srivastava has been appointed as the new Executive Director in
1) Central Bank of India 2) Bank of Maharashtra 3) United Bank of India
4) Allahabad Bank 5) Indian Bank
187. The first corn festival of the country was held recently in Chhindwara in which state?
1) Rajasthan 2) Haryana 3) Punjab 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) West Bengal
188. Vikram Misri has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to which of the following countries?
1) Japan 2) Mongolia 3) South Korea 4) Vietnam 5) China
189. The venue of the 8th Asian Yoga Sports Championship is
1) Chennai 2) Dehradun 3) Thiruvananthapuram
4) Jaipur 5) Bengaluru
190. The World Rabies Day is observed every year on which date?
191. Col. Ravi Rathore was conferred Arjun Award 2018 recently. He is associated with which of the following games?
1) Polo 2) Shooting 3) Table tennis 4) Wushu 5) Tennis
192. Which of the following pairs of new Executive Directors and the banks in which they are appointed is NOT matched
correctly?
1) Hemant Kumar Tamta – Bank of Maharashtra 2) Sanjay Kumar – United Bank of India
3) PR Rajgopal – Allahabad Bank 4) Shenoy Vishwanath Vittal – Indian Bank
5) None of these
193. SS Deswal has been appointed as the new Director General of which of the following armed forces?
1) National Security Guard (NSG) 2) Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
3) Sashastra Seema Bal 4) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
5) Assam Rifles (AR)
194. The parliament in which of the following countries voted unanimously to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San
Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship recently?
1) Australia 2) Canada 3) UK 4) Denmark 5) Norway
195. Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited India recently. He is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Tajikistan 2) Kazakhstan 3) Turkmenistan 4) Uzbekistan 5) Kyrgyzstan
196. Which of the following teams won the 2018 Asia Cup cricket tournament held in Dubai?
1) India 2) Bangladesh 3) Pakistan 4) Sri Lanka 5) Afghanistan
197. An earthquake and tsunami on the Sulawesi island killed about 400 people recently. The island is situated in which
country?
1) Italy 2) Cambodia 3) Vietnam 4) Philippines 5) Indonesia
198. In order to fight the growing problem of counterfeit drugs in India, NITI Aayog and which of the following firms have
signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to pilot a real drug supply-chain?
1) IBM 2) Oracle 3) Microsoft 4) Google 5) TCS
199. The World Heart Day is observed every year on which date?
200. The book The Rule Breakers has been authored by who among the following?
1) Sudeep Nagarkar 2) Ashwin Sanghi 3) Preeti Shenoy 4) Ravinder Singh 5) Durjoy Datta
201. President Ram Nath Kovind recently gave assent to a bill providing legal protection to the good samaritans. The Bill
belongs to which state?
1) Gujarat 2) Tail Nadu 3) Odisha 4) Bihar 5) Karnataka

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202. Deepika Kumari won a bronze medal at the Archery World Cup Final in Samsun in which country recently?
1) Turkey 2) Greece 3) Bulgaria 4) Spain 5) South Korea
203. Which country recently held a referendum on whether to change its name or not? Greece blocks its membership bids for
the European Union and NATO due to its name.
1) Estonia 2) Eretria 3) Macedonia 4) Zambia 5) Bulgaria
204. Yuvraj Wadhwani won the boys U-13 title at the 25th Asian junior individual championship in which game in Chennai
recently?
1) Snooker 2) Tennis 3) Table tennis 4) Squash 5) Golf
205. The overseas investors pulled out a massive Rs 210 bn from the Indian capital markets in Sep 2018 on widening CAD.
Here, CAD means
1) Commercial Account Deficit 2) Country Account Deficit 3) Currency Account Deficit
4) Commodity Account Deficit 5) Current Account Deficit
206. BNP Paribas had created SBI Life 17 years ago in partnership with State Bank of India. BNP Paribas is based in which
country?
1) France 2) Germany 3) Russia 4) Switzerland 5) Singapore
207. Who among the following has been elected as the new Chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the country’s largest
news agency?
1) Viveck Goenka 2) N Ravi 3) Vijay Kumar Chopra 4) Shobhana Bhartia 5) Vineet Kumar Jain
208. The International Translation Day is observed every year on which date?
209. Ajit Kumar Das has been appointed as the new Executive Director in which of the following banks?
1) Bank of India 2) Indian Bank 3) United Bank of India
4) Union Bank of India 5) Syndicate Bank
210. Rahi Sarnobat is associated with which of the following games? She won Arjuna award recently.
1) Archery 2) Triple jump 3) Wushu 4) Shooting 5) Squash
211. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 was awarded to who among the following for the discovery of cancer
therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation?
1) Tasuku Honjo 2) James P Allison 3) Michael Rosbash
4) All the above (jointly) 5) Only 1) and 2) (jointly)
212. The International Day of Older Persons is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Oct 2) 02 Oct 3) 11 Oct 4) 21 Oct 5) 31 Oct
213. The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) remained at _____ in Sep 2018.
1) 51.7 2) 51.9 3) 52.2 4) 52.8 5) 53.2
214. The Petroleum Ministry launched SATAT initiative to promote Compressed Bio-Gas as an alternative, green transport
fuel recently. Letter ‘S’ in the term SATAT means
1) Suitable 2) Sustainable 3) Solar 4) Subsidized 5) Sophisticated
215. India and Uzbekistan inked 17 agreements recently. The currency of Uzbekistan is
1) Rand 2) Baht 3) Manat 4) Som 5) Tenge
216. What is India’s ranking in terms of the largest pictorial warning on cigarette packs as per the Cigarette Package Health
Warnings: International Status Report 2018?
1) First 2) Second 3) Third 4) Fourth 5) Fifth
217. India’s infrastructure sector growth remained at what per cent in Aug 2018?
218. The govt has formed a Competition Law Review Committee to ensure that the legislation is in tune with the changing
business environment. The nine-member committee will be chaired by Corporate Affairs Secretary
1) Sudhir Mittal 2) MS Sahoo 3) Injeti Srinivas 4) LC Goyal 5) Rajiv Mehrishi

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219. Who among the following has been appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? He/she
would be the economic counsellor and director of the IMF’s research Department.
1) Sendhil Mullainathan 2) Emmanuel Saez 3) Raj Chetty
4) Gita Gopinath 5) Thomas Piketty
220. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will establish India’s first AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL)
Academy in
1) Jaipur 2) Bhopal 3) Ahmedabad 4) Shimla 5) Pune
221. The total gross revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Sep 2018 remained at
222. Which bank recently slashed the daily withdrawal limit on its classic debit card from Rs 40,000 to Rs 20,000 recently?
1) State Bank of India 2) Punjab National Bank 3) HDFC Bank
4) ICICI Bank 5) Axis Bank
223. Which state govt recently launched its own food security scheme to cover the poor people? It will benefit 25 lakh people
who were left out of the National Food Security Act.
1) Jharkhand 2) West Bengal 3) Odisha 4) Kerala 5) Karnataka
224. The veteran Kurdish Politician Barham Salih has been elected as the new President in which of the following countries
recently?
1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Turkey 4) Egypt 5) Bahrain
225. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently mooted the idea of ‘One World One Sun One Grid’. This idea is related to
1) OPEC 2) RCEP 3) Trans-Pacific Partnership
4) International Solar Alliance 5) NAFTA
226. Justice Ranjan Gogoi was sworn-in as Chief Justice of India recently. Justice Gogoi is the _____ Chief Justice of India.
1) 43rd 2) 44th 3) 45th 4) 46th 5) 47th
227. Who among the following won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers used for surgery
as well as scientific study?
1) Donna Strickland 2) Gerard Mourou 3) Arthur Ashkin 4) All the above 5) Only 1) and 2)
228. A contract for the supply of five regiments of S-400 air defense missile systems to India worth $5 bn is soon to be signed
with which country?
1) UK 2) Russia 3) Sweden 4) US 5) France
229. The govt has enhanced the loan limit for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to over what amount under the Prime
Minister Employment Generation programme?
1) Rs 10 lakh 2) Rs 25 lakh 3) Rs 50 lakh 4) Rs 1 cr 5) Rs 2 cr
230. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, which of the following banks pledged to become a plastic-free
organisation in the next 12 months?
1) Bank of Baroda 2) PNB 3) SBI 4) IDBI Bank 5) Canara Bank
231. The domestic law CAATSA is used to impose sanctions by which of the following country/Organisation for transactions
with Iran, North Korea or Russia?
1) UN 2) WTO 3) IMF 4) US 5) EU
232. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 to who among the following?
1) Sir Gregory P Winter 2) George P Smith 3) Frances H Arnold
4) All the above (Jointly) 5) Only 2) and 3)
233. India recently launched a massive operation ‘Operation Samudra Maitri’ to provide assistance to the earthquake and
tsunami victims in which country?
1) Vietnam 2) Philippines 3) Indonesia 4) Thailand 5) Japan
234. _______ has launched a national level entrepreneurship awareness campaign - Udyam Abhilasha - in 115 aspirational
districts.
1) Nabard 2) RBI 3) SIDBI 4) Exim Bank of India 5) SBI

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235. ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar resigned recently. Who among the following has been appointed as the new
MD and CEO of the bank?
1) MD Mallya 2) Sandeep Bakhshi 3) MK Sharma
4) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi 5) Bhargav Dasgupta
236. A board has been constituted on directions from the National Company Law Tribunal for the debt-ridden Infrastructure
Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). The non-executive chairman of the board is
1) Uday Kotak 2) Vineet Nayyar 3) Kumar Mangalam Birla
4) Anand Mahindra 5) Aditya Puri
237. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has been conducting a series of successful flight trials of Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air
Missile (BVR-AAM) named
1) Shaurya 2) Nag 3) Akash 4) Trishul 5) Astra
238. _______ was awarded UN’s highest environmental honour, ‘the Champions of the Earth’ recently as it is the first airport
in the world to run entirely on solar energy.
1) Cochin International Airport 2) Jaipur International Airport 3) Indira Gandhi International Airport
4) Chennai International Airport 5) Kempegowda International Airport
239. What is India’s overall ranking in 2018 on the govt’s adoption of e-payments as per the survey by The Economist
Intelligence Unit commissioned by payments company Visa?
1) 28th 2) 36th 3) 43rd 4) 54th 5) 62nd
240. India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $150-mn loan agreement to establish the country’s first Global
Skills Park (GSP) in
1) Chhattisgarh 2) Uttarakhand 3) Karnataka 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Rajasthan
241. The 21 member countries participated in the second Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Renewable Energy Ministerial
Meeting which was held recently in
1) Greater Noida 2) Jaipur 3) Bhopal 4) Chennai 5) Mumbai
242. The four-day Indian International Science Festival 2018 was held recently in
1) New Delhi 2) Bengaluru 3) Hyderabad 4) Patna 5) Lucknow
243. The first Mon in Oct is observed as which of the following days every year?
1) International Day of the Girl Child 2) World Mental Health Day 3) World Post Day
4) World Habitat Day 5) World Teachers’ Day
244. Indian Coast Guard held the joint exercise ‘Sahyog HOP TAC-2018’ with their counterparts from which of the following
countries in Chennai recently?
1) South Korea 2) Philippines 3) Vietnam 4) Thailand 5) Sri Lanka
245. India deported seven Rohingya immigrants to Myanmar recently. The capital city of Myanmar is
1) Maputo 2) Naypyidaw 3) Trincomalee 4) Phnom Penh 5) Caracas
246. Who among the following has become the second youngest Indian to score a Test century and fourth youngest Test
centurion on debut? He hit a commanding 99-ball hundred against the West Indies in Rajkot.
1) Shreyas Iyer 2) Himanshu Rana 3) Pranav Dhanawade 4) Rishabh Pant 5) Prithvi Shaw
247. The provisional gross collections of Direct Tax up to Sep for the current financial year is
1) Rs 3.47 lakh cr 2) Rs 4.47 lakh cr 3) Rs 5.47 lakh cr 4) Rs 6.47 lakh cr 5) Rs 7.47 lakh cr
248. Saurav Ghosal is associated with which of the following games?
1) Badminton 2) Tennis 3) Table tennis 4) Squash 5) Snooker
249. The 2018 Youth Olympic Games will be held in which city from 8-16 Oct 2018?
1) Buenos Aires 2) Jakarta 3) Bangkok 4) Manila 5) Tokyo
250. The 36th National Games will be held from Mar 30 to Apr 14 in 2019 in
1) Assam 2) Goa 3) Tripura 4) Sikkim 5) Himachal Pradesh

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1. 5 2. 1 3. 3 4. 4 5. 2 126. 1 127. 1 128. 3 129. 4 130. 2
6. 1 7. 5 8. 3 9. 2 10. 4 131. 4 132. 2 133. 1 134. 5 135. 3
11. 1 12. 4 13. 2 14. 5 15. 5 136. 5 137. 1 138. 4 139. 2 140. 3
16. 3 17. 3 18. 1 19. 4 20. 2 141. 4 142. 3 143. 5 144. 1 145. 4
21. 1 22. 3 23. 2 24. 5 25. 4 146. 1 147. 5 148. 3 149. 4 150. 1
26. 3 27. 2 28. 5 29. 4 30. 2 151. 5 152. 1 153. 4 154. 2 155. 3
31. 1 32. 4 33. 5 34. 3 35. 2 156. 2 157. 1 158. 4 159. 3 160. 5
36. 4 37. 2 38. 1 39. 3 40. 5 161. 3 162. 1 163. 5 164. 2 165. 4
41. 2 42. 2 43. 1 44. 3 45. 5 166. 5 167. 4 168. 1 169. 2 170. 3
46. 1 47. 1 48. 4 49. 5 50. 1 171. 4 172. 5 173. 3 174. 2 175. 1
51. 2 52. 3 53. 5 54. 4 55. 4 176. 2 177. 4 178. 1 179. 5 180. 3
56. 2 57. 1 58. 5 59. 4 60. 3 181. 5 182. 2 183. 3 184. 2 185. 5
61. 4 62. 3 63. 5 64. 1 65. 2 186. 1 187. 4 188. 5 189. 3 200. 4
66. 1 67. 3 68. 1 69. 5 70. 5 201. 1 202. 5 203. 3 204. 2 205. 4
71. 4 72. 3 73. 2 74. 2 75. 5 206. 1 207. 5 208. 2 209. 4 210. 3
76. 2 77. 4 78. 2 79. 3 80. 3 211. 5 212. 1 213. 3 214. 4 215. 5
81. 3 82. 2 83. 4 84. 5 85. 1 216. 1 217. 2 218. 5 219. 3 220. 4
86. 4 87. 3 88. 2 89. 5 90. 2 221. 5 222. 1 223. 3 224. 2 225. 4
91. 1 92. 5 93. 4 94. 3 95. 2 226. 5 227. 2 228. 3 229. 4 230. 1
96. 3 97. 5 98. 5 99. 2 100. 2 231. 5 232. 1 233. 3 234. 2 235. 4
101. 3 102. 1 103. 5 104. 2 105. 4 236. 4 237. 4 238. 2 239. 4 230. 3
106. 1 107. 1 108. 5 109. 4 110. 2 231. 4 232. 4 233. 3 234. 3 235. 2
111. 1 112. 5 113. 3 114. 1 115. 3 236. 1 237. 5 238. 1 239. 1 240. 4
116. 4 117. 2 118. 1 119. 5 120. 3 241. 1 242. 5 243. 4 244. 3 245. 2
121. 5 122. 2 123. 4 124. 3 125. 1 246. 5 247. 3 248. 4 249. 1 250. 2
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